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News / Great Anecdotes XCIII

« Last post by geoff_smith on May 19, 2018, 07:11:40 AM »

This nugget from NEHGR, April, 1851 was hard to place -- this name appears in both the John Locke and William Locke trees!

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News / Oregon Territory Meetup

« Last post by geoff_smith on May 06, 2018, 02:29:54 AM »

Thanks to the Pioneer Association of Washington for hosting our meetup of NW Locke Family Assoc. members today!  We perused the collection and were entertained by stories of several early Seattle notables. www.wapioneers.org

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News / 1915 Lockeport

« Last post by geoff_smith on April 26, 2018, 09:39:09 AM »

In 1915 the Lockeport Cold Storage Company took the bold step of shipping frozen fish to England to determine whether serving a more distant market would be viable.  Other hot topics in 1915 (aside from the Wold War): sail vs. motor boats, and a new technique to freeze fish almost immediately.

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News / Now Including Supplement 2

« Last post by geoff_smith on April 15, 2018, 01:30:28 PM »

Finally!!!!!  This website now incorporates the database with the supplement 2 update, as well as all member-submitted updates received so far.

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News / The Critical Path: Places

« Last post by geoff_smith on April 14, 2018, 07:30:50 PM »

Now that we have more than 2500 locations in the database, the most significant roadblock now is getting the lat/long coordinates for all the places in the database.  These are all updated on the staging server from Google.

There are several issues with places that I find awkward.  First, what to do when new counties are created.  Many cousins were born in Strafford County, NH, but died in Belknap county -- without moving! -- due to the creation of the latter.  I prefer to list the county as it existed at the time of the event, but this confuses Google maps.  And Rye is generally imputed to be in Rockingham County, which did not exist before 1769.

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News / Next Update

« Last post by geoff_smith on April 04, 2018, 04:16:04 AM »

The next update is on target.  I am repairing recent source references that were mangled last time.

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News / Thanks for the corrections!

« Last post by geoff_smith on March 23, 2018, 11:05:54 PM »

I received a couple dozen corrections since Supplement I was added!  A big thank-you to Bob Locke, Jim Burnham, Ned Locke, George Locke, Vern Margard, Lynette McMahon, and Chris Locke.  And a special thank-you to Ernestine Locke (R.I.P.), who wrote up some corrections 14 years ago that reached me this week!

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News / Supplement I Added

« Last post by geoff_smith on March 09, 2018, 07:35:16 PM »

The update of the web site is complete!
The web site now includes everything from the 1853 and 1916 genealogies, plus Supplement I from 1979.
It also includes the first few family updates.
Please let us know if you find any mistakes or issues at /suggest.php

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News / Updating the Site

« Last post by geoff_smith on March 09, 2018, 04:55:34 PM »

The site is undergoing a major update today.  If something breaks, try again in an hour.
Thanks.

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News / Big Burn

« Last post by geoff_smith on February 17, 2018, 04:35:55 PM »

Samuel Barron Locke IV, great-grandson of the ancestor from the Feb 4 post, in 1910 and fresh out of Yale Forestry School, went to work at the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho. 

That would place him there during the Big Burn, the castrophic wildfire in 1910 that burned three million acres in Idaho, Washington and Montana and that led to President Roosevelt's creation of the national forest service. He was deputy director of the park in 1913. 
_{See video at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/burn or read the fascinating book by the same name http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751128730}